Davóne Tines, The Truth – ROBESOИ (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:04 minutes | 423 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
Have you ever been so weighed down you almost gave up? // Ever since I was a young singer, I’ve been compared to Paul Robeson. I was asked constantly if I sang his trademark song “Ol’ Man River” and was told my voice reminded people of his. To be honest, I didn’t know much about him at the time and became annoyed that people kept asking me to sing what I considered a minstrel song. Since then, I’ve learned much more about his life and found that I indeed had a connection to him. But the connection revealed itself not through superficial comparisons of our race, singing voices and socially engaged work, but through his most vulnerable human moment. Many don’t know that while in political exile in Moscow, he was poisoned with LSD by the CIA, and attempted suicide in a hotel bathroom. This moment showed me he wasn’t a distant mythic figure; but instead, a faceted human facing and surviving life’s greatest difficulties. This vulnerable moment allowed me to move past seeing him simply as an idol to understanding him as an ancestor. // I too have been weighed down to the point of giving up. Those that would do me harm, including myself, almost led me to a certain point of no return. In the depth of that moment, something from the center of my being, something formerly unseen, made the decision to not succumb. To take this moment and survival past it as inspiration to go on, to repair my life and strive to do great work. In his own way, Robeson did the same.
Tracklist:
1-1. Davóne Tines – PRELUDE (01:02)
1-2. Davóne Tines – SOME ENCHANTED EVENING (03:15)
1-3. Davóne Tines – OTHELLO (02:13)
1-4. Davóne Tines – SCANDALIZED (03:58)
1-5. Davóne Tines – FLY AWAY (04:47)
1-6. Davóne Tines – NOBODY KNOWS (03:41)
1-7. Davóne Tines – TODESBANDEN (02:56)
1-8. Davóne Tines – THE HOUSE I LIVE IN (02:38)
1-9. Davóne Tines – LIFT EVERY VOICE (05:23)
1-10. Davóne Tines – LET IT SHINE (05:09)
1-11. Davóne Tines – EPILOGUE (01:14)
1-12. Davóne Tines – OLD MAN RIVER (04:45)
